Deck soffit progress, August 23, 2011

Today I finished the soffits over the deck on the east side. Working with 16 foot tongue and groove boards alone is proving to be quite a challenge. The straight ones are a challenge, the ones that are severely bowed are impossible to do alone. Tomorrow I will have an assistant to help me out for the day. Did I mention that my other assistant, Jimmy took up Varsity golf while I was away? I already miss him!

The shower is close to completion. A couple more hours when the last bull nose tiles come in will wrap it up. The ceiling is installed and finished in the shower; it will be painted the next day I get Tony back. Tony is ready to complete the final sanding on the bathroom interior and exterior walls. He will then prime the walls and paint them. When he has this completed I will install the mirror over the vanity and install the vanity lights and towel racks.

I have the bathroom and the mechanical room doors in the basement. I will install them when Tony has completed the painting.

This is the west side of the deck. I have installed the soffits around all the lights. Tomorrow we will install all the tongue and groove boards I have left. At this point I will get an exact count of what I need to finish and hand select the boards so I don't have to return any.

This week I also ran a water line to the back of the house. It comes out by the east corner of the walkout basement wall. I probably should have done this sooner, but.......

The next project will be to install siding on the dormers. I have the trim for the dormer corners and windows ready to go. I purchased them last week and they have already been stained.

Soffits over deck close to 50% complete July 23, 2011

On the 22nd we finished about 50% of the soffits over the west side deck up to the light cans. I'll check Monday to see if I have to have the wiring inspected before I cover the can wiring up.

Below is the east side soffit progress. It is about 45% completed. I ran out of tongue and groove boards today. I have an order being delivered on Monday the 25th. We will stain them on Monday and continue installing them on Tuesday. My plan is to complete all soffits by Thursday of next week. I will be taking some time off to go back to New Hampshire and spend time with my wife, Betsy the following week. Tony has been on site quite a bit in the last few weeks caulking the seams between the logs with the Log Jam. He should have the outside 100% in another few days of work (when I can get him).